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Louis VII (the Young) dies and is succeeded on the French throne by his son, Philip II Augustus.
Taira Kiyomori places his two-year-old grandson on the throne of Japan as Emperor Antoku, provoking a rebellion led by Minamoto Yoritomo, whose father Kiyomori had executed after his coup attempt in 1160.
Manuel I Comnenus dies and is succeeded as Byzantine emperor by his eleven-year-old son, Alexius II Comnenus, whose mother, Mary, daughter of Raymond of Antioch, serves as regent. She entrusts the government to Manuel's unpopular nephew Alexius.
Philip II Augustus of France expels the Jews from all the territory he controls.
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